COVID-19 updates: US has 1st day since November with fewer than 100K new cases

The Tokyo Olympics will take place this year "no matter how the COVID situation will be," organizers said Tuesday.

"We will make sure the Games will be held no matter how the COVID situation will be," Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, said during remarks at a meeting on preparations for the event . "We go beyond the discussion of whether we hold (the Games) or not hold. We are to come up with 'new' Olympics."

The 2020 Summer Olympics were supposed to kick off in the Japanese capital last year on July 24. But in late March, amid mounting calls to delay or cancel the upcoming Games, the International Olympic Committee and Japan’s prime minister announced that the event would be held a year later due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Games are now scheduled to open in Tokyo this summer on July 23, but doubt has surfaced as Japan — and much of the world — grapples with a resurgence of COVID-19 infections. Moreover, Japan is not expected to begin administering its first round of COVID-19 vaccinations until the end of February.

Last week, organizers said COVID-19 vaccines will not be a requirement to compete in the Tokyo Olympics and that they are still considering holding the Games without spectators.

There were 134,339 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the United States on Monday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

Monday's case count is far less than the country's all-time high of 300,282 newly confirmed infections on Jan. 2, Johns Hopkins data shows.

An additional 2,031 fatalities from COVID-19 were registered nationwide on Monday, down from a peak of 4,466 new deaths on Jan. 12, according to Johns Hopkins data.

COVID-19 data may be skewed due to possible lags in reporting over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend.

A total of 26,321,457 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and at least 443,365 have died, according to Johns Hopkins data. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and other U.S. territories as well as repatriated citizens.

Much of the country was under lockdown by the end of March as the first wave of pandemic hit. By May 20, all U.S. states had begun lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The day-to-day increase in the country's cases then hovered around 20,000 for a couple of weeks before shooting back up over the summer.

The numbers lingered around 40,000 to 50,000 from mid-August through early October before surging again to record levels, crossing 100,000 for the first time on Nov. 4, then reaching 200,000 on Nov. 27 before topping 300,000 on Jan. 2.

So far, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized two COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use -- one developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, and another developed by American biotechnology company Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. More than 32 million vaccine doses have been administered nationwide, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There are 93,536 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, according to data compiled by The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the U.S. outbreak.

The number represents a decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide over the last couple of weeks. The daily count reached as high as 130,000, data shows.

"Compared to last week, the number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 is down by 10% or more in 38 states," The COVID Tracking Project said on Twitter Monday.

-ABC News' Gabriel Ware

New Jersey's six mass COVID-19 vaccination sites will be closed Tuesday due to a winter storm that's grounded planes and halted subways across the Northeast region. New Jersey health care providers will reach out via text, email or phone to reschedule canceled appointments, according to the governor's office.

COVID-19 vaccination sites in New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Philadelphia and parts of Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia were also affected by the snowstorm on Monday.

-ABC News' Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.